This post is to support the efforts of Job Action Day, an initiative started by Quintessential Careers.
As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career ...
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Archives for October 2009
Is Your Resume Meeting the Employer’s Need?
If you are going to take the time to send your resume to an employer, you have to take the time to adjust it to the specific requirements of the job posting. Please! ...
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Go Team!
Working alone can be very lonely sometimes. Ask any one who has had to do it. Oh, you already know what it is like if you are unemployed and seeking a new job, ...
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Setting the Pace for Your Job Search
You want a new job. You want it fast. How will YOU make it happen?
Sometimes it feels like securing a new job is out of our control. I hear too often today people say "There aren't any jobs out ...
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How Quickly Things Change
Many of you may have seen this video before, but it certainly gets you thinking...
How does this impact you? How does this impact your work?What changes can you make? ...
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Using Technology to Manage Your Search
Yesterday I re-tweeted a posting about using iGoogle to start managing your search. The more I think about it, the more I feel the need to share that information here and add some ...
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Think Before You Speak
Sometimes we take advice literally. I've heard career experts recommend to job seekers that they should line up networking and informational meetings. Yep, I recommend this ...
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Finding Your Niche
Each of us has a niche. A place where we can practice our specialty. It seems we sometimes forget what we love to do and why.
Re-evaluating who we are and what we do is critically ...
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LinkedIn is Only a Tool, You are the Operator
LinkedIn is simply a tool to use to develop and nurture your network. As a tool, you have to determine how you will use it. You are the operator.
I'd like to add you to my professional network on ...
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1 Year Anniversary
How time flies. It was a year ago that I started writing my blog. I have learned so much about human nature, myself and technology.
I've written over 330 posts, ...
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Sales 101
People with a background in selling understand the job search process. They have lived it daily as they sold whatever product or service they represented for their previous employers. ...
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Setting Yourself Apart from the Crowd
Yesterday I re-tweeted (shared) an article from Mashable called "Do You Pass the Social Media Test". Every job seeker must read this. It explains, from a recruiter's ...
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Are Your A Cookie Cutter Job Seeker?
As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career Collective, this post is one of many responses to the question, "Are you a cookie cutter job seeker?" I encourage ...
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What Do Professional Resume Writers Do?
I have always believed that the pain and suffering you endure in writing your own resume is worth it. It forces you to become more focused and better at describing yourself and truly ...
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Social Networks Are About Sharing and Giving Back
In the most simple terms, the great social networkers are not self promoting, they are sharing and giving back. Social networks are LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Stumble, Digg, Wikis, ...
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Measuring Trust
The interview is a mutual exchange of information. This requires both parties to engage in good questions to gain better understanding of one another. One of the big intangibles for both is Trust. ...
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